📚 4 Books mentioned in "Peanuts (the comic) Part I | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW" of Stuff You Should Know
Podcast: Stuff You Should Know
Episode: Peanuts (the comic) Part I | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Published on March 20, 2024
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Bloom County
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Well, now that I think about it, the first one that really— not the first one that made me laugh, but the one that hit me on a second level was Bloom County.
One of the podcast's hosts reflects on the comic strip 'Bloom County' and how it resonated with him on a deeper level. The discussion then expands to explore their personal connections with various comic strips.
The Complete Maus
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Essentially, Art Spiegelman, the guy who created Mouse, said that Peanuts was Schultz breaking himself up into child-sized pieces and letting them go at each other for half a century.
During the discussion on Peanuts, one of the hosts references Art Spiegelman, who created 'Maus' (mistakenly referred to as 'Mouse'), mentioning his perspective on how Charles Schulz expressed himself through the characters in the comic.
The Night Before Christmas
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Yeah, he loathes them. I collected those books too, actually.
One of the podcast hosts shares that he collected Garfield books while discussing comic strips they enjoyed as children.
The Night Before Christmas
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Yeah, I was huge into Garfield and Bloom County.
One of the podcast hosts shares their fondness for the comic strip 'Garfield' and how it was accompanied by collections in book format.